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By the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, it felt like time for a change. Her son Edward certainly thought so. For 40 years, the Palace had been a virtual mausoleum. Edward VII openly described it as the Sepulchre. Now he swept in with a force described as, " Like a Viennese hussar bursting suddenly into an English vicarage". Edward VII was determined to modernise Buckingham Palace. I mean, for example, what Queen Victoria had never allowed were loose anywhere near the public rooms of Buckingham Palace. So if you were invited to a levee or an occasion there, best not to have anything to drink for the first 24 hours beforehand. Whereas Edward VII was a bit more sympathetic, and he built, moved, and built some loose so that when people came for things, they could actually use the facilities. |
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zhí dào 1901 nián, wéi duō lì yà nǚ wáng shì shì shí, sì hū gǎi biàn de shí jī dào le. zhì shǎo tā de ér zi, ài dé huá, shì nà yàng xiǎng de. 40 nián jiān, bái jīn hàn gōng shí zhì shàng jiù shì yī zuò líng mù, ài dé huá qī shì yě shì zhè yàng gōng kāi de xíng róng tā, xiàn zài tā zhǐ gāo qì áng dì jìn rù gōng diàn, jiù xiàng wéi yě nà qí shì tū rán chuǎng rù yīng guó jiào qū mù shī wū yí yàng. ài dé huá qī shì jué xīn duì bái jīn hàn gōng jìn xíng xiàn dài huà gǎi zào, jǔ gè lì zi, wéi duō lì yà nǚ wáng cóng bù yǔn xǔ zài bái jīn hàn gōng fù jìn de gōng gòng kōng jiān ān zhì cè suǒ. suǒ yǐ rú guǒ nǐ huò yāo cān jiā zhāo dāi huì, huò zhě yǒu shì qù nà biān, zài cǐ 24 xiǎo shí zhī qián bú yào hē rèn hé dōng xī, ér ài dé huá qī shì hái shì tǐng yǒu tóng qíng xīn de. tā jiàn zào le yī xiē cè suǒ, ràng lái zhè lǐ de rén men kě yǐ yòng shàng zhèi xiē shè shī. |